The Positivist School was founded by Cesare Lombroso and led by two others: Enrico Ferri and Raffaele Garofalo. In criminology, it has attempted to find...

His school of sociological positivism holds that society, like the physical world, operates according to general laws. After Comte, positivist schools arose...

and the development of the legal system in the United States. The Positivist school argues criminal behaviour comes from internal and external factors...

from his predecessor and rival, Cesare Beccaria, by depicting his positivist school in opposition to Beccaria's classist one (which centred around the...

philosophy, social sciences, and various models of scientific inquiry. While positivists emphasize independence between the researcher and the researched person...

philosophy into "scientific philosophy", which, according to the logical positivists, ought to share the bases and structures of empirical sciences' best...

same basic principles at its core. Simply put, positivists see sociology as a science, while anti-positivists do not. The antipositivist tradition continued...

the domains such as the law of the sea and commercial treaties. The positivist school grew more popular as it reflected accepted views of state sovereignty...

positivism further by separating law not only from morality, as the early positivists did, but also from empirical facts, introducing the concept of a norm...

sociological paradigm Legal positivism, a school of thought in jurisprudence and the philosophy of law Positivist school (criminology), attempts to find scientific...